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Excepting these minor faults an excellent, unusually well-pre- served set. [46321] £2,000 First editions of the accounts of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s. Major General Geoffrey Bruce was an officer in the British Indian army and a member of the 1922 and 1924 expedition parties to climb Everest. In 1922 he set a new mountaineering world record height and was one of thirteen members of the expedition awarded an Olympic gold medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics.
SIGNED BY GENERAL GEOFFREY BRUCE 50. HOWARD-BURY, C. K.; BRUCE, C. G.; NORTON, E. F. MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE; THE ASSAULT ON MOUNT EVEREST; THE FIGHT FOR EVEREST Arnold, 1922-1925. Three volumes, all first editions. 4to. All in the original publish - er’s cloth, lettered gilt to the upper covers and spines. Volumes two and three signed by the mountaineer, Geoffrey Bruce. Pro- fusely illustrated with maps and photographs across the three volumes. A near fine set, remarkably fresh and unfaded. The sec - ond volume with a bump to the upper corner, and volume three with some chips to the edge of page 157. Previous ownership bookplates to front pastedowns of each and previous ownership inscriptions to volume two’s front free endpaper.
51. RUTTLEDGE, Hugh EVEREST: THE UNFINISHED ADVENTURE Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. First edition. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt letter- ing and bands on spine. Pencil sketches of the members of the expedition. Folding maps and a portfolio of sixty-three photographic plates at rear. A near fine copy with minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and spots of foxing to page edges. Previous ownership bookplate to front pastedown. [46322] £150 After his attempt to summit the mountain in
1933, Ruttledge was invited to lead the sixth British attempt on Ev- erest in 1936. Because of recent failed expeditions, the pres- sure on Ruttledge’s large and talented team to succeed was great, but heavy snow and an early monsoon forced them to abort their summit attempt.
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